Christine McVie Quotes
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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Whether you know Jack Ryan or you don't know Jack Ryan, he's a compelling person to spend time with.
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What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore it before you live on in some way.
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In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.
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I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.
